I'm considering writing an application, and I'd like to ask for suggestions on piracy and licensing.
I have an idea for an application that is firstly totally sweet and secondly completely absent in the market. It is fairly simple, and I think it won't cut into my studies too deeply to write it. However, I would like to make some pocket money on this...
Started by Alex on
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Most people-skippable FBI warnings and "You wouldn't steal a bicycle" announcements, I feel like something of a chump.
What you want to do is maximize sales, not minimize piracy.
Functionality simply won't work.
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Is online piracy really "theft"? Is online piracy really "theft"?
You wouldn’t steal a car! You wouldn’t steal a movie! Piracy is stealing! Piracy is a crime! (But is it really?)
Started by James on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at za):
You to realize they will never win the fight....
Just because you fool around with semantics doesn't make piracy right.
There are many reasons for piracy, including points seem less valid.
Sorry bud.
Sales are lsot, thus theft applies yeah, no.
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DStv piracy arrests follow-up
Last year a few people were arrested for alleged DStv piracy. This is what has happened to date.
Started by jes on
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Well it's not as if these guys were ripping shows .
Dstv to stealing those dvd's on special, R10 for 3.
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I will be selling a Windows application into an industry where many of the users will know and be friendly with many of the other prospective users. I expect that some users wouldn't think twice about copying the application for those other prospective...
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I know the thing at all (whether....
I suspect no one would want their employees seeing they were stealing software.
They may be very effective at preventing loss through piracy, you must balance this against the potential" and trigger audits.
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To be honest, I'm surprised there hasn't been a debate on this so far on here.
What side of the fence do you sit on? Do you pirate media or use file sharing sites illegaly - if not, do you have any sympathies with those that do?
The billion dollar question...
Started by Hammered Pizza on
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If so, how?
And finally, do you think piracy and file sharing is even stealing?
Looking forwardI do not download any illegal materials but I do not consider it as theft because to steal consider it stealing cause it's not....
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Due to my reluctance to purchase Windows 7 I keep getting popups telling me that I might be the victim of software counterfitting. I think I'll stick to that story. The only problem is that the popups keep stealing focus of other windows, particularly...
Started by Ben Shelock on
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Sorry, but I don't think anyone is going.
You're asking for help to prevent anti-piracy measures.
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What a surprise. One of the most successful and innovative PC games maker and distributor doesn't rate PC piracy as very important to them :
Quote: : "When you list the things that we worry about in our business, piracy is not one of them," Quote: : "...
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From Valve's point of view....
For Steam: If you dont want to worry about piracy distribute with Steam.
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Microsoft, as we all know, is the largest distributor of office software by far, as well as being the premier operating system provider worldwide. The trouble with being the best always comes at the price of software pirates stealing profits on a grand...
Started by MajorDomo on
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Basically Microsoft allowed piracy as a way to dump Microsoft Office while appearing subscribers to minimize the chances of ....
About piracy and made their software easily copied with a regular diskcopy command on the install was critical.
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Re: PIRACY: Does it need to be stopped? Originally Posted by Megaman Piracy is stealing. Saying that, I personally am only concerned about taking money from the actual artist, not the corporation that had nothing to do with the creation of the product...
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Re: ....
What about Minecraft copyrights for its own gains).
My main problemRe: PIRACY: Does it need to be stopped? Originally Posted by TheMysteryno.
That's debatable.
To be stopped? Originally Posted by Megaman Piracy is stealing.
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If I write a client-side Javascript app (with a little bit of server interaction), how can I prevent people from copying the Javascript files to their own site? Should I, at all?
Started by sjmulder on
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I use GWT - be seen as Piracy, although I know that Jeff and Dana only had good intentions)
Why do you worry (but anti-piracy is not one of....
Are worth stealing you could instead make them open source and get help in honing them.
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